"tkaczma" == tkaczma tkaczma@gryf.net writes:
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 scw@seas.ucla.edu wrote: ARGGG! NO! NO! NO! Disaster waiting to happen. A failed terminal, or one that is turned off or has its power line unplugged generates a BREAK -well strictly speaking it's not really a BREAK but most implimentations of UART see it as a break. This used to happen to our Admin folks every once in a while with their SUN. Remember the users with their torches and pitchforks.
tkaczma> We have 800 Suns, all of which have that feature. I haven't tkaczma> heard of any such uprising happening any time during a LONG tkaczma> history of this organization (pre Sun). This is especially tkaczma> hard to do with remote terminal servers. I think whether you tkaczma> want this or not should be toggled by and OpenBoot variable tkaczma> set to disabled by default.
I wish Sun would implement that. I've got a bunch of sun's on a terminal server and have never had a problem unless the cisco is powered off. That's acceptable; all the sysadmins know it, and no one else is allowed in the machine room (*cough*). Had a similar situation when I worked for an ISP.
Not once did you have any spurious breaks.
Now, if the NetApp wasn't able to immediately able to return to its previous running state after a "go", that would be a problem...
K.